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RAILWAY WORKER RESCUED FROM RAILWAY TUNNEL

20.09.2009

The West Midlands HART team played a vital role in the rescue of a man who became trapped in a railway tunnel in Herefordshire on Sunday 20th September.

West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to The Homend, Ledbury, shortly after 11am and members of the Hazardous Area Response Team attended along with other ambulance service colleagues, a BASICS Doctor from MARS (Mercia Accident Rescue Service) and the Midlands Air Ambulance.

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “A man in his forties was working in the tunnel when he became trapped between a piece of machinery and the wall of the tunnel.

“Using equipment from the Hazardous Area Response Team, crews were able to get to the patient. He was taken out of the tunnel along the railway line with the use of an excavation stretcher and trailer.

“He had a fractured right ankle and was flown by Midlands Air Ambulance to Hereford County Hospital.”

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